After
a week long cabaret engagement back in Florida where she visited her parents,
Holly Woodlawn was enticed to go to San Francisco by an offer from a producer
to earn $1,500 for playing a week at a nightclub called Bimbos. She bombed and
the producer disappeared without paying her.

She moved in with some fans who hung out at the same bar. To
get money to move back to her apartment in New York, she worked at an answering
service on Castro Street, taking calls for the Suicide Hotline and for a prostitute
named Sunshine. She planned on moving back to New York at the end of the summer
but then got a phone call from the person subletting her apartment in NY who
told her that it had been gutted by a fire and everything she owns had been
destroyed.

Holly then got evicted from her San Francisco apartment because
the kids with whom she lived hadnt paid the rent for two months. Holly
then rang her parents and pleaded for a ticket to New York. (HW269)